Never Greater Slaughter

Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings. The stakes were no less than the survival of the dream that would become England.

For centuries, its location has been lost. But today, an extraordinary effort may well have found the site of the long-lost battle of Brunanburh, over a thousand years after its bloodied fields witnessed history.

This groundbreaking new book tells the story of this remarkable discovery and delves into why and how the battle happened. Most importantly, though, it is about the men who fought and died at Brunanburh, and how much this forgotten struggle can tell us about who we are and how we relate to our past.